Fat in the fifties : America's first obesity crisis / Nicolas Rasmussen.
By: Rasmussen, Nicolas [author.].
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 188 p: illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781421428710.Subject(s): Obesity -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Obesity -- History | Obesity -- history | History, 20th Century | United States | United StatesGenre/Form: History. | Print books.
Contents:
Fat and the public health before the second World War -- Obesity becomes a mental disorder -- The postwar heart alarm : new attention to an old hazard -- Fighting heart disease one calorie at a time in cold war suburbia -- The new epidemiology and its impact -- The disappearance of obesity as a public health problem.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fat and the public health before the second World War -- Obesity becomes a mental disorder -- The postwar heart alarm : new attention to an old hazard -- Fighting heart disease one calorie at a time in cold war suburbia -- The new epidemiology and its impact -- The disappearance of obesity as a public health problem.